The Dunwich Horror

The Dunwich Horror is a cosmic horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1928 and first published in the April 1929 issue of Weird Tales. Set in the fictional decaying Massachusetts town of Dunwich, it follows the monstrous offspring of Wilbur Whateley, a man attempting to open a gateway for ancient, otherworldly beings to return to Earth. The story is considered one of the core works of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos and helped establish the tradition of cosmic horror centered on forbidden knowledge and indifferent, incomprehensible entities.